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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I don't really get it.   Kids go outside in 41 degree weather all the time.  Yes, it's cold, but it's not freezing.  Again, I'm assuming it was for a shorter duration (less than 20 min.).  What is the harm?  Isn't the harm less than someone who spanks or slaps their kid?

Is there really any harm at all when kids on their own volition sometimes go out in cool/cold weather without coats?  Just b/c he was crying doesn't make it "harmful" -- he might cry just as much if she took his electronics away.

I'm not hearing anything that is so egregious that it is a felony.[/quote]
Normally, I would agree, but the article indicated the boy was shivering with a blanket wrapped around him when the police arrived, which tells me he was out there long enough to get really cold.  Obviously, she was trying to make him suffer physically.  I have spanked my ES age kids a couple of times, so I'm not opposed to physical punishment, but being out in the cold for a time without a jacket long enough to be shivering is prolonged physical pain.

But, I think taking the kids away for this is over the top.  Taking the kids away from their mom, and them seeing their mom hauled off by the cops, now probably can't get a job teaching, is probably going to hurt the kids a hell of a lot more than what the mom did.

We've become a nanny state.[/quote]

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